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- See also changes related to Social policy, or pages that link to Social policy or to this page or whose text contains "Social policy".
Parent Topics
- Public policy [r]: Higher order or general principles, inclinations or preferences which guide the making of public laws, rules or decisions. [e]
Subtopics
- Social legislation (Australia): Add brief definition or description
- Social legislation (Britain): Acts of Parliament that are important in British social policy. [e]
- Social legislation (Canada): Add brief definition or description
- Social legislation (France): Add brief definition or description
- Social legislation (Germany): Add brief definition or description
- Social legislation (New Zealand): Add brief definition or description
Social legislation (U.S.): Acts of Congress and state legislatures that are important in U.S. social policy. [e]- Court decisions - social policy (U.S.): Important rulings by the Supreme Court with respect to U.S. social policy. [e]
Social security: Generic term referring to state programs for the protection of the elderly, healthcare provision, and income maintenance. [e]- Social Security in the USA: The largest federal social welfare program in the United States. [e]
Related Topics
- Affirmative action [r]: Policy of giving preference or favor to members of groups (such as racial minorities and women) who have suffered past discrimination or prejudice. [e]
- Education [r]: Learning, teaching, research and scholarship activities for the purpose of organizing, presenting and acquiring knowledge, skills or social norms. [e]
- Housing [r]: 1). Generic term for arrangements for residential living, including houses, apartments, dormitories, lofts and other locations where individuals, families or groups reside. 2). A term used to characterize social legislation or social policy concerned in the aggregate with residential living arrangements. [e]
- Mental health [r]: The well-being of the brain and mind. [e]
- Poverty [r]: Lack of adequate resources, usually but not always material. [e]
- Rural poverty [r]: The factors of rural society, rural economy and rural political systems that give rise to the poverty found there. [e]
- Social work [r]: Helping persons, groups or communities enhance or restore their capacity for social functioning by working with them directly or by creating social conditions favorable to that end. [e]
- Social Darwinism [r]: Efforts to draw political conclusions from the theory of evolution by natural selection. [e]